Thousands of Chinese residents evacuated for world’s largest telescope
By Emily Calandrelli From TechCrunch Over 9,000 Chinese residents will be evacuated from their homes in order to create a radio-quiet zone for the world’s largest telescope. The telescope, known as the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), will listen for…
Survey: Many companies are ignoring the risks of ‘Shadow IT’
By Stephanie Forshee, From Corporate Counsel Employees commonly use cloud-based services such as Evernote and Dropbox to share their work, even though these activities often haven’t been sanctioned by the employer’s IT department. This sort of unsanctioned information sharing, known…
Gadget of the week
SevenHugs Smart Remote controls devices by just pointing By Matt Burns From Techcrunch Make Your Smart House Actually Smart with Sevenhugs Point and control. That’s the basis of the SevenHugs Smart Remote. Instead of selecting, say, a connected light bulb…
Ericsson ConsumerLab: ICT helps women have an easier work life
More than half of working women in Latin America wish to keep their personal and professional lives separate and use mobile broadband tools to do so Working women lead the daily usage of internet services, and device and service ownership…
Former Apple designer brings us one step closer to advanced AI with ‘The Brain’
By Chris Smith From BGR The human brain is frequently used as a model by computer makers who’re looking to create complex machines ranging from robots to more intelligent gadgets. Many companies are looking to develop artificial intelligence well above what’s…
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Anonymous-linked hacker rescued at sea and then arrested
By Timothy J. Seppala From engadget A Disney cruise ship picked him up off the coast of Cuba and delivered him to the FBI in Miami. A purported member of online activist group Anonymous was arrested by the FBI in Miami…
New project to be implemented to prevent domestic violence in the Caribbean
From Caribbean News Now HUDDERSFIELD, England — A team of Caribbean and European experts, headed by Professor Adele Jones from the University of Huddersfield, in partnership with The Sweet Water Foundation of Grenada, has been awarded 400,000 euros from the…
Mobile phone signals assist Caribbean in containing spread of Chikungunya
From Economic Commission For Latin America And The Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean Information generated from mobile phones can be successfully used to contain the spread of non-communicable diseases, as was recently done to stem the spread of the…
10 lessons from FTC Guidance on Data Security
By Marc S. Roth From Corporate Counsel “Not if, but when.” These simple words are enough to keep corporate counsel, compliance officers and IT managers up at night when faced with the reality that their network will at some point…
This Michigan Tech professor built a drone that catches rogue drones
By Danielle Muoio, From Tech Insider A Michigan Tech professor is building a drone will shoot a net at rogue drones to capture them. The drone capturer is being developed by Mohammad Rastgaar-Aagah, an associate professor in the University’s Mechanical…
